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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
Two Colored Men of Note.

Ex-senator Bruce is making his headquar-
tiers in New York at one of the up town
hotels this winter. He is lecturing with fair
success, and is engaged in some literary work
touching on the colored people. Mr. Bruce
says that his treatment at the hotels in New
York is precisely that accorded to white
guests. Respectable, well dressed colored
men, of quiet, unassuming manners, he as
serts, have nothing whatever to complain of
either in travelling or in the large cities of the
north. Ex-Governor Pinchback comes on
from New Orleans to New York two or three
times year. He always buys whole sleep
ing car section. loads the seats with papers
and novels and only leaves the cars TO get his
meals. He always stops at tho Hoffman,
takes one of the best parlors in the house and
Is one of the most respected guests. Pinch
back differs from Bruce in two respects
Pinchback never associates with colored
people; Bruce does. Then again Pinchback
is a sporting man; Bruce is not. Pinchback
attends all the great circuit races with well
loaded pocketbook is a shrewd buyer of
pools, and his tips are eagerly sought. Bruce
is of literary turn, and believes that through
literature the colored men will be able to
make their way to social recognition.
York Sun.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
An UnlOyable Creature.

AS in religion the hypocrite is the church's
worst enemy, SO in the social fabric the flat
tcrcr is woman's worst. When she goes out
to party, for instance, she is told how
lovely and sweet and charming she is, and so
gets to believe she is faultless, even though
she be gradually developing into female
rough by being cross and disagreeable at
home. A young woman who is selfish and
rude to her mother or brothers or sisters stands
a fair chance of becoming in middle life a
well, to put it mild, very ENJOYABLE
creature.-Thomas p. Grasty in Arkallsaw
Traveller
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
A MOTHER TO HER BABY.

To the Sweetest, the Dearest, the Truest tie Best;
To a voice that is sweet as birds in the nest;
To a cheek like the flush on the leaf of a rose;
To a dear little tip tilted love of a nose;
To lips that have gathered the glory of bloom
From crimson carnations deep sliced with DER.
fume;
To eyes that are dark as the beauty of night
Yet filed with star spli gers of arrowy light
To a smile that's as glad as the laughter of dawn
When the veil of the darkness is slowly with
drawn;
To a heart-but what symbol that is not divine
Can choose for the heart of my dear Valentine?
And what words can l frame that will do my be-
hest
Tkat will bear oil my love, with q lovers fond
zeSt?
- the Dearest, the Sweetest, the Truest the Best.
The Wide Awake.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29

best" and is discreet in her co,lnseis, she will
not only protect him, but strengthen him. A
great deal of mischief is done by making
mountains out of molehills. II boy is SO
unfortunate as to be without mother, let
him seek the counsel of some wise and moth
erly woman. If boy has weak and selfish
mother, let him respect her for all she has
suffered and shelter her with his love.
great many of the trials with boys arise
from improper diet Tho next reform should
be table reform. Food is a moral agent Hot
spices and over rich food are irritants, and
growing boys and girls are often corrected
for some display of temper which is directly
traceable to the table. The growing body
requires an immense amount of fuel: it should
be varied, simple and nutritious. Don't lee
ture your boy when he is fretful. Don't OK
asperate him; win him, and hold him by your
love and patience. Make his interests your
interests, and share your troubles with him.
Nothing does boys more good than a sense of
responsibility; they like to be trusted, and
that is the way to make them worthy of
trust.
Much of the misery of domestic life como
from the selfish exactions of men who have
been spoiled by their mothers. All life is an
exchange of courtesies. Boys are quick to
detect sham ready to resent supposed in
jury and equally ready to listen to a cry OF
distress Every woman in the land who is
blessed with boy to train has sacred duty
to perform; he may fill her hands with torn
pantaloons and her heart with aches, but the
same hands will be clasped in blessing and the
same heart will throb with joy if she makes
him her companion and friend.--Kate Tan
matt Woods in Boston Globe.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
To Purify Feathers.

l wish to tell my experience with foul
smelling geese feathers | tried days of OK
posurc TO Il southern midsummer sun, then
baked them in AN oven for hours. all to no
purpose | had recently been using borax TO
wash blankets, and the idea occurred to me
to use 1t for my feathers. | did not add soap,
because It would leave strealls. So put on
the boiler, filled it half full of water, then
added the borax, pounded fine SO as TO dis
solve readily. In the lump it was as near
the size of half teacup as | can describe it,
immersed tie feathers, about five pounds,
weighted down with ccanly washed stones.
and heated to boiling, continued about four
hours. then removed them to u wash
board laid over tub to drain Wh.n cool,
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
Cure and Care of Burns.

In all burns great care should be taken to
savo the cuticle-the raised portion of the
skin that forms the blister. Clothing, ETC.,
should be removed with the utmost gentle,
ness. Blisters should be carefully punctulcd
with clean needle. The bet way to be sure
that needle is clean when required for such
service is to heat it red hot, allow it to cool,
and then use it. 1t will thus be freed from
any organisms, for in such place as q burn
germs will thrive abundantly and prove most
detrimental, so that the utmost care il nccess-
airy. Then the raised cuticle should he
pressed down to the true skim and covered
with large quantity of clean cotton wool to
prevent the access of air. as free exposure
tends to increase shock and pain.
Equal parts of lime water and linseed Oil
applied on lint and covered with cotton wool
is favorite remedy, known under the name
of carron oil, or the blister may be covered
with wheaton flour. Lately powdered clay
has been employed, but fer the first fow days
il i; best to wrap the part IN cotton wool, suf-
ficient oil being employed TO prevent its stick
ing. The dressings once put on must not be
removed for some days-not, indeed, until
they have been loosencd by the discharge or
become offensive. The constant removal If
dressings is disturbing, painful, and Uonse-
quently injurious, and to obviate any necess-
ity for it carbolic oil, a disinfectant, is
used i'll the proportion of one to ten OF more.
Small burns or scalds may be treated by
water dressing, lead lotion, chalk and water
collodion or Friar's balsam. Two parts OF
collodion to one of castor oil is an excellent
application. The patient should be kept in Il
warm atmosphere, well covered up, and some
wine or brandy and hot water may be admin.
istered.-Family Doctor.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
Advice to Yankee Tourists.

In view of the fact that there will be an
even greater influx of Americans into Eng
land this year than for many years, by reason
OF the jubilee and the American exhibition.
n word of advice to some of the intending
tourists may not be amiss If you follow it
you will have a better time yourself and Won
Will help to make our people popular Don't
come to England prepared to find fault with
everything you see or that people here do.
1t is just as well to stop and think how you
would like it yourself if every Englshman
that came to -America told you how much
better, in his opinion ut least, they do things
here. Don't tell every Englishman you meet
that our railway carriages are better that
our food is better, that our houses are warmer
etc. 1t may be true, but it don't make your
society the more pleasant to people who have
nospitable intentions toward you. man
may have wart ON his nose, but it doesn't
improve his temper to have his attention
called to the fact daily. Remember, You
come of your own free viii, and if you don't
like it you can go home, and you needn't
come again, but you'll have a better time
here, and like it better, il you follow this
hint.-London Letter.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
VISITORS AT THE CAPITAL.
New York Society People in Washing
ton-Nuisances From Abroad.

New York Society People in Washing
ton-Nuisances From Abroad.
The attitude of New York society people
toward Washington is peculiar, and they
show their bumptious provincialism in
dozen ways. One New York woman who has
spent couple of seasons here remarked kindly
that she could see great improvement in
the art of dinner giving since she came to
Washington. "Of course New York dinners
have always been perfect, but here it is quite
new thing, you know, this dinner giving"
was her bland remark. When repeated to a
few Washington hostesses who have been
giving dinners for score Of years there was
an immediate temptest in tea pot. Now
Workers have the coolest way of making just
such speeches about Washington and assum-
ing an air of condescension as il it were very
kind in them to be amused by the capitals
doings; yet at the same time they make all
these pretensions they come here and go to the
greatest lengths to get into the full swim of
society. NJ
New Workers have always led in the army
of anglomaniacs that infest the city, but oven
the anglomaniacs have had q trial this winter
by having two nuisances from England an
noy people beyond measure. The pair were
taken up rapturously by their first discover
eIS, anu were iubIOuuCct Nv SEVERAL eACluSlNe
houses, from which they could not be dis
lodged, when it was finally discovered that
they were rude and impudent and pushing
people, upon whom snubs had no effect. AS
admirers of art they went around different
parlors, examining and criticising pictures
with appalling GOODNESS. Having marched
into one house where they knew there was a
portrait by Bonnat, and where they had no
introduction whatever, they demanded to be
shown the Bonnat, much with the air of a
stage robber demanding the treasure box.
At Gen. Sheridan's house they asked to see
his portrait, and coolly said it was "horrid. y
awe think it a very good portrait" said Mrs.
Sheridan, quietly, who found the English
couple the most extraordinary of the crowds
who had called on that particular reception
day.
"May l ask what relation you are to the
generals" inquired the English woman, with
cool impertinence
Tam his wife," said Mrs Sheridan.
"Oh just fancy!" said the undisturbed
critic, who commented ON other things in
sight and then left "Ruhamah" in Globe
Democrat
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
The Colored Population.

AT n recent meeting in Baltimore of tho
treednans Aid society an organization for
the education of Methodist ministers among
the negroes of the south, Secretary 4. c.
lIar.2el said that the colored people are in
creasing more by births than the whites are
by births and emigration combined Five
hundred colored babies are born every
twentyfour hours He had seen some old
colorcd preachers hold the Bible upside down,
and all they could do was to shout and pound
The Bible; but he'd rather hear man like
That preach than nanlby pamby. pink
paper young man read a milk and water
essay. Tke brethren shouted ''Amen New
York Sun
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
The Women Who Work.

As for the brave maidens, L love the work
ing woman-those who go out into life and
pick their own apples, not those who sit in
the parlor and wait to be fed on the cooks
sweetened apple sauce. IL | had forty girls,
and each We're heiress to fortune, I'd give
them all something to do in life And
wouldn't crowd them all into the overlooking
ranks of teachers and professionals, either.
Clerkships and cashier desks and shorthand
tables need recruits from out the ranks of our
best girls-and there is many woman to-day
casting up accounts or lingering typewriter
who has made more of herself and will reap
a richer harvest by and by than if she had
cast herself into the rut worn deep by those
who think classical education and a teach
erss life the highest and only respectable work
for women.
The girl who sits at home and allows an
overworlxed father to support her, compared
to the brave girl who goes out into the world
and fights her own battle, is like the 40
lanthe" made of butter compared to the same
figure carved in deathless stone Her char
acuer, capacities and all those possibilities
which lay ready to make her life of durable
worth and lasting usefulness will melt into
nothingness as time goes by, yielding neither
profit nor pleasure to herself or others, in
stead of facing the years like marble, uncor-
roded and uncrumbling. -"Amber" in Chica-
go Journal.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
NTatrons at Police Stations.

A much needed movement for the appoint
ment of matrons at police stations is i'll prog
ress in Boston. 1t is shameful to think of
women, many of whom are by no means
hardened criminals, left entirely to the care of
men. 1t IS as necessary to have women as
attendants at police stations as to have
women searchcrs at the custom house. Com
mon decency requires that this should be done
in other cities as well as Boston.--Franl.
eslies
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29

fsqleezed dry, a handful at time, working
them to the opposite end. then fastened
the case by the end to the clothes line. thor
oughly shaking up and changing ends about
four times during the two days it took them
to dry. l felt had made discovery, and
yearly in midsummer since that time my
pillows undergo the process. l have no
feather beds, or they would also. 1 boil
them in their ticks, and it leaves no streaks
ii they are squeezed dry enough not to run.
Cor. Brattleboro Household.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29

In sketch of the early life of Thomas
Bailey Aldrich, writer IA st. Nicholas says
that when Thomas was quite young he saw
advertised a preparation highly recommended
for making hair grow on bald heads. He
bought bottle and applied it literally to an
old hair trunk, whose long residence in the
attic had left it very little hair The boy
watched for results long and hopefully; but,
it is added, they were not satisfactory New
York SIM
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
The Development of BOYS.

1t seems to me that the key to the wise de-
velopment Of boys is their confidence; win
that and hold it, and you hold your boy. Let
boy once feel that he can come to you with
any trouble, great or small, and you will save
aim from committing follies which he will
regret forever. When mother says to her
boy, i want TO know your worst and your
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
A Noted Yellow Fever Nurse.

NANNY" Wilson, who has kept a fruit
stand in New Orleans for sixty years, is dead
She was q marvelousy successful yellow fever
nurse, and had labored in every epidemic
since 1917, and had many medals and diplomas
to attest her skill
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
Women Not All Angels.

1t is great mistake to teach boys that all
women are angels. AS they grow older they
find out that they have been taught lie, and
then begin to search for other lies i'll theiI.
ethical code, and the result is their faith is
shaken i'll some things that ought to be held
as sacred as holy wiit.-Thomas p. Grasty in
Arkausaw Traveller
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29

Only so far as man is happily married &c
himself is he fit for married life, and family
life ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
The Reggars of Rome.

1t is estimated that the beggars of Rome
receive 900 year in aims and that 500
OF them are worth from $4,000 to $25, 900
each A Roman who can make money by
begging is not going to work.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
Women workers at Starvation Point.

what ought to be DONE" | imagine my
missionary saying to her "heathen," sis to
convince you that SO long as you choose to do
the work that you like to do, and not the
work which the world wants done, you must
be content to dwell at starvation point. But
do not complain of the world. You are hav-
ing your own way. You are. by your own
admission, doing what you like to do. You
might just well go out in the yard and
build SNOW houses and say This is the work
| like to do and | should not be content with
any other, and think something ought to be
done to get me better pay for it The world
wants q few snow houses for the children,
but it does not want more than may be had
at the cost of the mttens, and rubber boots,
and knicserbocker knees that the children
wear out in building them. The world wants
o few flannel undergarments, but it is very
simple want, which few unskilled women
can supply. If you choose not to put thought
and skillj and planning into the more COM
plicated work that the world wants done,
remember that you are having your own
way; you are not simply oppressed by other
people. You are really tyrannizing over
yourself. The man with the wheelbarrow is
more Independent than the man on the rail
road. He has only to walk behind his wheel
barrow; but lie does not get there. He is at
starvation point all the time Nothing can
be done for him unless he is willing to fall
into line with the rest of the world and board
the train"
And because we must look at all features
of the case if we would ever improve it, we
| strike Immediately against fact which lies
perhaps very neG~ the root of the difficulty,
| and which must be considered To a sugges-
| ton of the country, this poor young worker
| replied with pathetic ignorance: ~ wouldn't
know what to do in the country if | were
| there. | don't seem to like it, somehow. 1t
isn't the company, for mother and me keep
| to ourselves u good deal, but somehow we
know how to get along in the city, and the
| country scares me-"
That undoubtedly is the statement of
widely prevalent feeling. To thousands of
! these pavement born and pavement bound
souls tho country is great, unknown wilder
| ness, n mysterious Sahara, teeming with COB
inns and specters. To meny it is an inacces-
ble desert of whose nature not only, but. of
whose ways and of whose approaches they
are as ignorant as of the ways of Mars or the
road to Jupiter. They might just as well be
recommended to household service in an out
| lying ring of Saturn or to stock little farm
On one of the hillsdes of the moon as to be
merely recommended to the diaries and
porches of Connecticut village. 1t is all
ezra incognito.-Gail Hamilton in New
! York World.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29

he Jones ITO rural cousin)Y oull have to
wear q dress suit at tho party this evening,
you know.
Rural Cousn--Darn my buttons il I will
I ain't goin' TO como down here to make no
female attraction out o myself. If my swal-
iowtail amt good enough stay at home
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29

According to recently published book
parsley was the only vegetable eaten in tho
time of Queen Elizabeth. The fayorite game
was pigeons. trout, chicken, venison and
rabbits
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29

Courtesy in the distress of house consists
in feeding conversation, never in usurping it.
She is the guardian of this species of sacred
fire, but it must be accessible to all.-Mme
Swetchine.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29

The divided skirt is actually receiving at
tention in fashionable society.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29

The mothers heart is the child's school
room-Beecher
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29

More than 5000, 900 tons of this winters ice
have been harvested OH the Hudson.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29

In 1886 taxes were paid on $3.50, ses $50
cigars in this country.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
FORGIVENESS.

Crush the rose, It's odor rises,
Giving sweetness for the pain:
Grieve woman, and she gives you
Sweet forgiveness, poured like rain.
George Birdseye in Brooklyn Magazine.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-29
WOMAN AND HOME.
THE LADY WHO WAS LEFT" MIS-
MATED TO A GENIUS.

Women Workers at Starvation Point.
The Development of Boys-Cure of
Burns-Taste in House Furnishing.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-09-15
Tariff Issue.

Wipe out the internal revenue on
whisky and, tobacco. Wipe out the
whole internal revenue system. This
isthe way to dispose of the surplus of
the United States Treasury. It is the
way to prevent a surplus. Down with
the taxes. There is no sense in collect
ing money from the people for which
there is no USE Commercial Gazette.
The Commercial steps to the front
and presents the policy of the Repubii-
can, politicians. That policy is to re-
move internal revenue tax from whis-
ky and tobacco but to keep up an un-
disturbed tariff on the necessaries of
life at AZ per cent. The Democratic
party does not indorse such policy
The Democratic platform declares ri
1--WE demand such judicious redue-
tion of the present burdensome t ariff
as shall result in producing revenue
sufficient only to meet the expenses. OF
an economical administration of gov
ernment, the payment of liberal PEN
sions to Union soldiers and sailors, and
the payment of the interest and princi-
pal of the public debt; and if necessary
we favor such reduction of internal
revenue, except on liquors, as will pre-
vent the accumulation of a surplus in
the United States Treasury. And we
denounce any attempt to abolish the
tax on liquor for the purpose of keep.
ing up the present unjust, unequal and
onerous tariffsystem. "-D Delaware Her.
aid. '.'. -3." t'.'' d.. .'
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-09-15
Precisely.

Mr.. Powderly declares that the, Re-
publican scheme is to protect the
manufactured article and to let the
workingman protect himself as best as
he can. Oh, ho, Mr.. Powderly! you
have 'caught on" have you? You are
the possessor of an extremely level
head and you have got the biggest
humbug of the time by the throat
The word protection" is a cobweb to
catch flies with. Well-mouthed, it
has an exquisite sound, a very captivat-
ing sound. But when you look at the
facts of the case you find that the work
ingmen have had mighty little of this
protection--not enough to leave any
taste in the mouth. What do all these
strikes in every part of the country
mean? That the Republicans have
protected the wage Garner? Hardly
On the other hand, that workingmen
have judged it necessary to protect
themselves? Exactly. Protection would
be magnificent thing if it could only
protect once in while. But when the
pinch comes you always find out that il
protects "the other fellow."-Ne,O Yorl
Herald. .,ir .g; u. .f.. tts JAS,